Revisiting the Relationship between Income Distribution and Economic Growth

La mayoría de los modelos que exploran la relación entre la desigualdad en la distribución del ingreso y el crecimiento económico, postulan la existencia de una correlación negativa entre las dos que es generada a través de diferentes mecanismos. Paralelamente a los modelos teóricos, un número importante de estudios empíricos han tratado de evaluar esta relación. De este esfuerzo ha surgido un consenso amplio que valida la existencia de dicha relación negativa. No obstante, estudios recientes basados en el uso de datos de panel han producido el resultado contrario, documentando la presencia de una relación positiva entre desigualdad y crecimiento. El examen del debate generado a partir de estos resultados, así como el trabajo empírico adelantado en este estudio, indican que las estimaciones obtenidas en diversos trabajos pueden no ser tan robustas como se creía En consecuencia, se sugiere que la realización de estudios de caso por país puede ser una mejor vía para explorar este tema.

Jake and the babysitter.

Jake es difícil. Jake es un problema. Cuando sus padres deciden salir una noche fuera de casa, no quieren dejarle con una niñera, por ello deciden llamar por teléfono al nuevo vecino. Pero el canguro que se presenta resulta ser un gorila y su comportamiento es aún peor que el de Jake.

Jake and his cousin Sidney.

Jake es difícil. Jake tiene un problema y es que no le gustan los bebes. Hay que imaginarse el día en que le confían a su primito Sydney para cuidarle. Jake le da la comida al bebé, le cambia de pañal y le prepara para el baño, abre el grifo de la bañera y se va a su cuarto a leer un rato. Hasta que recuerda que ha dejado a Sydney en el cuarto de baño.

Snow : causes and effects.

En esta serie los jóvenes lectores se acercan a los diferentes tipos de clima que experimentamos en la Tierra. Además de tratar el tema de un fenómeno meteorológico en particular, se incluye información sobre el pronostico del tiempo y vemos, además, las formas en que las personas, los animales y las plantas modifican su comportamiento de acuerdo a determinadas condiciones meteorológicas.

Storms : causes and effects.

En esta serie los jóvenes lectores se acercan a los diferentes tipos de clima que experimentamos en la Tierra. Además de tratar el tema de un fenómeno meteorológico en particular, se incluye información sobre el pronostico del tiempo y vemos, además, las formas en que las personas, los animales y las plantas modifican su comportamiento de acuerdo a determinadas condiciones meteorológicas.

Student's watcher : comparison between ASP.NET and PHP+CSS

"Student’s Watcher” is a small Web application which wants to show in a visual, simple and fast way, the evolution of the students. The main project table displays such things as marks and comments about students. We can add a comment for each mark to explain why this mark. The objective is to be able to know if some student has a problem, how is going his year, marks in other courses, or even, to know if he has a bad week in a different subjects. We can see the evolution of students in past years to do an objective comparison. It also allows inserting global comments of student, we have a list of these, and all professors can add new ones, where we can see more general valuations. “Student’s Watcher” was begun in ASP.net, but finally my project would be developed in PHP, HTML and CSS. This project wants to be a comparison between two of most important languages used nowadays, ASPX and PHP

Les fondements de la loi et comment elle se construit chez l’individu

RESUMÉ: Le Droit, en tant que système de constructions institutionnelles de l'humanité, est une échelle symbolique indispensable dans la construction de la subjectivité, puisqu'elle sauvegarde les interdictions fondamentales relatives à l'inceste et aux crimes d'homicide, de parricide, de matricide et d'infanticide, lesquelles constituent des limites nécessaires au langage en tant que phénomène psychosomatique humain. Le système du Droit a la fonction de médiation dans l'économie psychique de la Référence symbolique et fonctionne comme un Tiers dans la logique triadique du langage puisque, en établissant des catégories de filiation et des niveaux de hiérarchie dans la séquence des générations, il rehausse l'importance de la généalogie patriarcale dans l'espèce parlante. Le Droit «institue la vie en instituant la subjectivité» dans l'art de l'interprétation des interdits construits dans les sociétés. C'est le représentant logique transcendantal divin, paternel ou étatique qui soutient chez le sujet l'acceptation de l'interdiction œdipienne et de ses nuances, engendrant alors sa «capacité de jugement singulier». ABSTRACT: The Law, as a system of institutional constructions for mankind, is an essential symbolic scale for the construction of subjectivity, since it saves fundamental injunctions about incest, and crimes like homicide, parricide, matricide and infanticide, all of them constituting the necessary boundaries to language as a human psychosomatic phenomenon. The Law system as the function of mediation for the symbolic Reference in the psyche economy and works as a Third party on the triadic logic of language, because as it establishes affiliation categories and hierarchic levels in the sequence of the generations, it highlights the importance of the patriarchal genealogy in the «speaker species». The Law «institutes life instituting subjectivity» in the art of injunctions interpretation built in societies. It’s the logical transcendental divine representative, fatherly or status apparatus that sustains for the subject the oedipal acceptance and its nuances, creating then its «singular judgment capacity».

Comment on ``Piecewise potential vorticity inversion: Elementary tests''

Egger (2008) constructs some idealised experiments to test the usefulness of piecewise potential vorticity inversion (PPVI) in the diagnosis of Rossby wave dynamics and baroclinic development. He concludes that, ``PPVI does not help us to understand the dynamics of linear Rossby waves. It provides local tendencies of the streamfunction which are unrelated to the true ones. The same way, the motion of baroclinic waves in shear flow cannot be understood by using PPVI. Moreover, the effect of boundary temperatures as determined by PPVI is unrelated to the flow evolution.'' He goes further in arguing that we should not consider velocities as ``induced'' by PV anomalies defined by carving up the global domain. However, these conclusions partly reflect the limitations of his idealised experiments and the manner in which the PV components were partitioned from one another.

Overview: oxidant and particle photochemical processes above a south-east Asian tropical rain forest (the OP3 project); introduction, rationale, location, characteristics and tools

In April–July 2008, intensive measurements were made of atmospheric composition and chemistry in Sabah, Malaysia, as part of the "Oxidant and particle photochemical processes above a South-East Asian tropical rainforest" (OP3) project. Fluxes and concentrations of trace gases and particles were made from and above the rainforest canopy at the Bukit Atur Global Atmosphere Watch station and at the nearby Sabahmas oil palm plantation, using both ground-based and airborne measurements. Here, the measurement and modelling strategies used, the characteristics of the sites and an overview of data obtained are described. Composition measurements show that the rainforest site was not significantly impacted by anthropogenic pollution, and this is confirmed by satellite retrievals of NO2 and HCHO. The dominant modulators of atmospheric chemistry at the rainforest site were therefore emissions of BVOCs and soil emissions of reactive nitrogen oxides. At the observed BVOC:NOx volume mixing ratio (~100 pptv/pptv), current chemical models suggest that daytime maximum OH concentrations should be ca. 105 radicals cm−3, but observed OH concentrations were an order of magnitude greater than this. We confirm, therefore, previous measurements that suggest that an unexplained source of OH must exist above tropical rainforest and we continue to interrogate the data to find explanations for this.